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[ale] Possible backdoor in /dev/random? [discussion]

Subject: [ale] Possible backdoor in /dev/random? [discussion]
From: ted-lists at xy0.org (Ted W.)
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 13:13:56 -0400

I saw an interesting discussion on http://reddit.com/r/linux today
about the decision Linus made two years ago to include RdRand as the
source for /dev/random. Thought you all might like to see it and
discuss here as well.

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1lucdy/did_linus_torvalds_backdoor_linux_random_number/

-- 
Ted W.

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